L'Abri Fellowship - Southborough

March 1 What does God mean by his promise, "I will be with you"?

Dick Keyes

Some say that the best place to hide is in plain sight. “They’ll never think of looking here!” Sometimes this is the sad fate of Biblical truths which are so familiar to us that their life and importance is hidden simply by their familiarity. God’s amazing promise, “I will be with you” may have suffered this fate. It appears explicitly many times in the Bible and many more times implicitly or as an assumption. But what does it actually mean to us in our daily lives which range from triumph to tragedy with lots of routine in between?

 

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Feb 15 Sight for the Blind: A Study on the Significance of Eyes in the Biblical Story

Anna Friedrich
From the “pleasing to the eye” fruit of Genesis 3 to the four living creatures in Revelation “covered with eyes all around,” the Bible is full of references to sight. God’s sight and human sight seem to compliment and challenge each other. What does it mean for God to see us, or for us to “fix our eyes on Jesus”? We’ll explore these questions among others in a broad stroke “look” at sight through the Bible. 

 

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Feb 8 - Caring for Creation Part III: Our Relationship to Farmed and Domesticated Animals
Ben Keyes
What does the bible say about raising animals for food? How can we apply God’s word to our contemporary food system that relies so heavily on intensive factory farming? Should we all be vegetarians as many Christians argue, or are we entitled to rely on animals for food? Is this even a question that should concern Christians?

 

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Feb 1- Revolution or Recession?  Sex in Pre- and Post-Christian Cultures -
Joshua Chestnut
One might assume that in a culture as tolerant and progressive as our own that these would be booming times for sex, yet a growing body of research seems to point in the opposite direction that more and more people are in fact retreating from physical intimacy.  In this lecture will not only consider the sexual landscape of our current post-Christian culture, but reconsider the surprising distinctives of Christian sexual ethics as they emerged in the Pre-Christian world and how it revolutionized human sexuality.  

 

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Jan 25, 2019

- The Gift of Grace:  No Strings Attached or Call and Response?
Dave Friedrich
This lecture considers the research of New Testament scholar John Barclay in his book, Paul and the Gift (2015), that challenges the definition of Divine grace as a gift with no strings attached and helps us see the gift of grace in Galatians and Romans as both divine call and human response.  (This is the second lecture in a two part series, but also stands alone.  Part one is, The Last Laugh)  

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A lecture given by Dave Friedrich at Southborough L'Abri on January 18th, 2019. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

 

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A lecture given by Mardi Keyes at Southborough L'Abri on November 2nd, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

 The Changing Relationship of Young People to Work

From the birth of our nation, the relationship of young people to work has varied according to geography, gender, ethnicity, class, race and religion. But it is a fair to say that in general, young people (children and teenagers) used to be economic assets to their families. For many, young peoples’ work was (and in some cases still is) necessary for family survival. Today, many couples consider children a “luxury” they cannot afford. We will consider some of the consequences of “modern childhood” that emerged with the middle class in the 19th century – a childhood free from labor, dedicated to age-graded schooling and separated from casual (non-professional) relationships with adults.

~Mardi Keyes

 

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A lecture given by Anna Friedrich at Southborough L'Abri on October 26th, 2018. For more information, visit www.labri.org/mass and for more L'Abri lectures, visit the L'Abri Ideas Library.

 

Butterflies and moths are among the most intriguing insects of our ecosystems. From their physical transformations to their epic migrations, these fragile little things continue to surprise and challenge us. In this lecture, we will dip our toes into the deep waters of Lepidoptera, and wonder together about how these small creatures play a part in God’s big story.

~Anna Friedrich

 

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This is only the discussion time to the theme weekend:
Created to Make a Difference: Redeeming Human Agency in God’s World

A lecture given by Sarah Chestnut at Southborough L'Abri on October 20th, 2018.

Part 3 of the theme weekend: Created to Make a Difference: Redeeming Human Agency in God’s World.

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If a biblical understanding of human dominion involves exercising care and responsibility for God's creation, how might we exercise dominion over our inner worlds--our thoughts and feelings?  What might self-control have to do with this endeavor?  We will consider how the Holy Spirit's work of  're-humanizing' us empowers us to do the work of dominion from the inside-out.

 

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